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Yes, DNS should be like the old phone book — published regularly, pick one up anywhere & everywhere, look things up anonymously (granted, authenticity guarantees were somewhat lacking). My question - Sure blockchain can do this, but couldn’t a simpler DHT-based p2p system would work just as well or better? I like the distributed/anonymity/authenticity, but why is blockchain required?
So every DNS change is stored into the blockchain, forever? Will you have to download terabytes and terabytes of the blockchain in order to serve as a node? Why is that kind of audit history necessary? Why is the solution to every problem "blockchain" these days?
That is a trope and is no longer true. If you say blockchain is the solution you get laughed at.
while it may be harder in the US i could legitimately see a mechanism developing to make that a requirement for isps
Handshake is another DNS on blockchain project that's taking a different approach — it's aiming to decentralize the root zone (TLDs) instead of domains, because the root zone is where the centralization happens. This MIT Tech Review article gives a good overview of Handshake's goals: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613446/the-ambitious-plan...
Every time I see an article claiming that someone is building some “decentralized” system to make censorship harder I wonder if anyone of those people even understands how the internet is censored at scale in places like China. For the censorship we have in the west e.g. blacklisting torrent sites a non-ISP DNS and or CDN already solve that problem, for anything beyond that nothing would help.
It all comes down to whether you think the current stewards and legal regimes and ICANN are doing a good job or not. [I'm undecided].
is this not what https://www.namecoin.org does..?
The article specifically calls out Namecoin, but doesn’t say anything about how Namecoin falls short or why it can’t be augmented/improved instead of building a whole new thing.
I know I’ll sound like a grump here, but why does the bar for HN front page feel so low these days?
So every DNS change is stored into the blockchain, forever? Will you have to download terabytes and terabytes of the blockchain in order to serve as a node? Why is that kind of audit history necessary? Why is the solution to every problem "blockchain" these days?
> Why is the solution to every problem "blockchain" these days? That is a trope and is no longer true. If you say blockchain is the solution you get laughed at.
Yes, DNS should be like the old phone book — published regularly, pick one up anywhere & everywhere, look things up anonymously (granted, authenticity guarantees were somewhat lacking). My question - Sure blockchain can do this, but couldn’t a simpler DHT-based p2p system would work just as well or better? I like the distributed/anonymity/authenticity, but why is blockchain required?
...and controlled by whoever has the most computing power. ;-)